Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the...

A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children goes beyond the relation between the representation of reality and language alone; instead, it ...

In this book, Elizabeth C. Tomlinson offers a rich analysis of the ways that rhetorical principles inform the world of work. With in-depth, engagin...

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradi...

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on Americ...

Bilderverrätselungen in der Werbung basieren auf einer paradoxen Wirkungsweise: Statt Widerstände in der Kommunikation zu umgehen, bauen sie Widers...

Perfekt unperfekt? Auf Hochglanz polierte Gestaltung erscheint uns manchmal distanziert, umgekehrt kann eine rasch hingeworfene Linie oder eine ver...

Die Frühe Neuzeit ist bekannt dafür, dass sich die Kontrahenten in konfessionellen Streitfragen gegenseitig heftig attackierten. Ein herausragender...

The term 'hybridity' has been around for a long time and, for most of its history of use, has been pressed into the most disparate - and often dubi...

E-mail is a common medium of communication in academic settings, and its informal nature has given rise to unique discourse strategies that can adv...

From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, security has become one of the most overused words in culture and politi...

Die These dieser Arbeit ist, dass der Konjunktiv in der indirekten Rede ein logophorischer Modus ist, d.h. ein Verbmodus, der sich auf eine von der...

Philosophie und Rhetorik entwickelten sich in klassischer Zeit zu einem festen Bestandteil der athenischen Kultur. Vom Wert und Nutzen der neuen Bi...

Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader ...

Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series bri...

This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the chall...

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him ...

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they soughtand continu...

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they soughtand continu...

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the so...

The second edition of this highly regarded textbook is designed to introduce students at the tertiary level to both Systemic Functional Linguistics...

In The Writing of Where, Charles Lesh examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city. The spaces readers ...

Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political ...

Over the past few decades, cognitive linguistic research has turned metonymy from the poor sister of metaphor into a ubiquitous conceptual phenomen...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. Each companion is a comprehensive reference...

This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Grounded in the field of aspectua...

An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and g...

Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major i...